Public Speaking Quotes - Page 2

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.

I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have."

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

Public Speaking is very easy.